Last updated 23 December 2024
23 December 2024
- All Graphic designer roles have updated skills.
- All Interaction designer roles have updated skills.
- All Service designer roles have updated skills.
- The skills ‘design communication’, ‘designing for everyone’, ‘designing strategically’, ‘designing together’, ‘evidence-based design’, ‘iterative design’, and ‘leading design’ have been added.
- The skills ‘coding and scripting (infrastructure engineer)’, ‘communication’, ‘community collaboration (front-end developer)’, ‘consultancy (business analysis)’, ‘data standards (data architect)’, ‘development process optimisation (management)’, ‘IT infrastructure (network architect)’, ‘problem resolution (data)’, and ‘systems integration (network architect)’ have been merged with similar skills and removed from profiles.
- The skills ‘digital perspective’, ‘evidence-and-context-based design’, ‘prototyping in code’, and ‘tools and software’ have been removed from profiles.
- Updated the content of 20 skills to improve accuracy, clarity and consistency with the rest of the framework: ‘applied social sciences, (previously applied knowledge of social sciences)’, ‘asset and configuration management’, ‘availability and capacity management’, ‘coding and scripting’, ‘community collaboration’, ‘consultancy’, ‘cyber incident management (previously ‘cyber incident strategy and management)’, ‘data engineering (previously data engineering and manipulation)’, ‘data standards’, ‘data visualisation’, ‘development process optimisation’, ‘information security’, ‘IT infrastructure’, ‘modern development standards (previously modern standards approach)’, ‘problem management’, ‘security technology’, ‘service management framework knowledge’, ‘IT service reporting (previously ‘service reporting), ‘service support’, ‘systems integration’.
- Project Manager and Project Support job familes added to the Product and Delivery Family.
- Chief Data Officer and Chief Information Security Officer job familes added to Leadership Family.
22 December 2024
- User researcher has updated skills.
- The skills ‘agile research practices’, ‘research management, leadership and assurance’ and ‘user-centred practice and advocacy’ have been added to the ‘skills A to Z’ page.
- The skills ‘society and technology’, ‘strategic insight’ and ‘user-centred and agile practices’ have been removed.
- Updated the content of 13 skills to improve clarity and consistency with the rest of the framework: ‘business modelling’, ‘business process improvement’, ‘business process testing’, ‘change management’, ‘continuity management’, ‘customer service management’, ‘data maturity’, ‘leadership and guidance (frontend developer)’, ‘metadata management’, ‘stakeholder relationship management’, ‘user research methods’, ‘web performance optimisation’.
06 December 2024
Reference to ‘the Care Records Service and Clinical Portal Programme’ removed from Clinical Informatician summary
30 August 2024
Updates to all the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework skill descriptions in the following roles:
- Software development – Apprentice developer
- Software development – Apprentice DevOps engineer
- Software development – Apprentice frontend developer
- Software development – Developer
- Software development – DevOps engineer
- Software development – Head of frontend development
- Software development – Junior developer
- Software development – Junior DevOps engineer
- Software development – Frontend developer
- Software development – Lead developer – management
- Software development – Lead developer
- Software development – Lead DevOps engineer – management
- Software development – Lead Devops engineer
- Software development – Lead frontend developer
- Software development – Principal developer – management
- Software development – Principal DevOps engineer – management
- Software development – Principal DevOps engineer
- Software development – Senior developer – management
- Software development – Senior developer
- Software development – Lead developer: Modern Standard skill level changed
- Software development – Lead developer: Programming and build (software engineering) level changed
- Software development – Principal DevOps engineer – management: Availability and capacity management level change
- Software development – Principal DevOps engineer – management: Development process optimisation (management) level changed
- Software development – Principal DevOps engineer – management: Systems integration level changed
- Software development – Principal DevOps engineer – management: Service support level changed
09 August 2024
- Chief Data Architect updated – Data governance (level 4) removed
- Data Architect updated – Problem management (data architect) (level 2) removed
Summary updated for the following profiles:
- IT Operations- Configuration Analyst
- IT Operations Associate Application Operations Engineer
- IT Operations – Associate Infrastructure Operations Engineer
- IT Operations – Head of IT Service Management
- IT Operations – Senior Service desk analyst
- IT Operations – Head of Service desk
- Software Development – Lead Frontend Developer
- Software Development – Lead developer – Management
- UCD – Senior content designer
05 August 2024
- Solutions Architect job family added to the Architect family
- Digital Portfolio Manager job family added to the Product and Delivery Family
24 July 2024
Information Governance family added
- Data Protection Officer job family added
- Information Governance Manager job family added
- Information Governance Officers job family added
03 June 2024
Product and Delivery roles added to the Product and Delivery Family
- Business Analyst job family added
- Delivery Manager job family added
- Product Manager job family added
- Programme Delivery Manager job family added
- Service Owner job family added
All User-Centred Design roles added to the User-Centred Design Family
- Accessibility Specialist job family added
- Content Designer job family added
- Content Strategist job family added
- Graphic Designer job family added
- Interaction Designer job family added
- Service Designer job family added
- Technical Writer job family added
- User Researcher job family added
Business Architect job family added to the Architecture Family
20 May 2024
All Quality Assurance Testing roles added to the QAT job family
- QAT Analyst job family added
- Test Engineer job family added
- Test Manager job family added
19 March 2024
- Infrastructure Engineer roles added to the IT Operations family
15 March 2024
- Data Architect job role was updated in line with updates to government DDaT
- Chief Data Architect job role updated in line with updates to government DDaT
- Network Architect job role updated in line with updates to government DDaT
- Lead Security Architect job role updated in line with updates to government DDaT
5 March 2024
- Digital portfolio manager was added to the product and delivery role group to reflect DDaT update.
- Solution architect was added to the architecture role group DDaT update.
6 December 2023
ESR labels added to Patient Services and Digital Leadership
9 November 2023
- The Occupational Architecture was updated on the 9th of November to reflect the feedback from the FEDIP Management Board.
- Clinical Digital Service Owner added to Clinical Informatics
- Clinical Informatician added to Clinical Informatics
- Clinical Safety Officer added to Clinical Informatics
- Nurse Informatician added to Clinical Informatics
- Allied Health Professional Informatician added to Clinical Informatics